Revolutionary War Pension and Bounty Land Warrant Application File S. 10,653, Ebenezer Farrington, Mass.

SERVICE
Mass.
Farrington, Ebenezer.
NUMBER
S. 10,653
carded.
CONTENTS

21. 6. 5 New Hampshire
Ebenezer Harrington of Hillsboro in the State of N.H. who was a Private in the Company commanded by Captain _____ of the Regt commanded by Col. Brewer in the New Hampshire line for 2 years
★ Mass. Line. Febr. 7/05. Recorded corrected. f
Inscribed on the Roll of N. Hampshire at the rate of 50 Dollars _____ Cents per annum to commence on the 4th day of March, 1831.
Certificate of Pension issued the 2 nd day of Oct 1833 and sent Edmund Parker Amherst N.H.
Arrears to the 4th of Feb 1833 $240.00 Semi-ant. allowance ending 4 March 40.00
$280.00
{ Revolutionary Claim Act June 7, 1832.
Recorded by A. H. Madison Clerk Book C Vol. 10 Page 80

State of New Hampshire County of Hillsborough - ss.
On this third day of July A.D. 1833 personally appeared in Open Court before the Court of Probate now sitting at Franconia within & for said county of Hillsborough in the State aforesaid Ebenezer Farnsworth a resident of the town of Greenfield in said county who being duly sworn according to law doth on his oath make the following declaration in order to obtain the benefit of the act of Congress passed June 7th 1832. That he entered the service of the United States under the following officers and served as herein stated - that is to say
11/12 On the 19th of April 1775 on hearing of the destruction of Lexington & Concord & served till the first of May a term of eleven days in Capt. Bullard's company of Col. Smith's regiment of N.H. militia at Roxbury.
8/12 In the latter part of April 1775 he enlisted for eight months & afterward served the term out in Capt. Bullard's company of which Lieut. Lindley and Lieut. Plympton were the other officers in Col. Reed's regiment in which he thinks the Capt. was Lieut. Col. He was stationed at Jamaica Plains with part of the regiment. The other part was stationed he thinks near Roxbury Thicket. He knows of no person by whom he can prove this service. The term of service commenced the first of May 1775 & ended the last day of December following.
2/12 In the spring or summer of the year as he believes 1775 he enlisted for two months & the Massachusetts militia went to White Plains & at that place and in the neighborhood thereof served out said term in Capt. Bryden's company. One Plympton was a lieutenant in the company. To what regiment he belonged he does not remember. He knows of no witness by whom he can prove this service.
1-12 In May or June 1775 he went as a volunteer to Warwick Rhode Island on an alarm and served in the service six weeks in Capt. Clapp's company in Col. Wheelock's regiment. The first three weeks of the time he served on his account & the last three weeks as a substitute for one Calum Guy who he believes had been drafted. He knows of no living witness by whom he can prove this service.
1/12 In Sept. 1777 he enlisted for one month's service to Little Compton on a secret expedition & served one month & seven days in Capt. Plympton's company of N.H. militia in Col. Hovey's Regiment.

In the Spring of 1778 he was drafted for nine months and went to Westpoint & was put into Capt Brown's company in Col. Brown's regiment. He afterwards during the time volunteered with two others of this company to go with a party upon the lines & while there was in a company commanded by the same Capt. Brown under the command of Col. Hovey. The party was under the command of Gen. Lafayette. He returned to West Point and in the month of February 1779 having fully served out said time was there discharged. He received a written discharge which he has since lost.
In June 1780 he enlisted for six months & served out said time on the lines between New York City & West Point and at West Point in Capt Bates company (in which one Hill was lieutenant) in Col. Jewett's Regiment.
There is not a clergyman residing at this time in Greenfield. Rev. Peter Holt resides in the adjoining town of Peterborough & preaches a part of the time to both societies in Greenfield of which he the said Farington is a member.
He was born in Walpole Massachusetts Decr 10. 1757. Has no record of his age - but has a copy of the record of his birth from the records of the town of Walpole. He resided at Walpole at each time he entered the service except that when he entered the nine months service he was a resident of Mansfield, Ms. Since the War he has lived in said Walpole & in Greenfield Ms. in the latter of which places he now lives. He does not remember receiving any written discharge except from the nine months service. Samuel Budworth & Charles Gaudine are persons to whom he is known in his present neighborhood who can testify as to his character for veracity & their belief of his services as a soldier of the Revolution.
He relinquishes every claim whatever to a pension or annuity whatever except the present and declares that his name is not on the Pension Roll of any State.
Elizer Farington Sworn and subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Edward Parker, Judge of Probate.
We Peter Holt - a Clergyman residing in the town of Peterborough in the county of Hillsborough aforesaid hereby certify that we and Joshua Holt - residing in Greenfield in the county aforesaid hereby certify that we are well acquainted with Elizer Farington who has subscribed and sworn to the above that we believe him to be seventy five years of age - that he is respected & believed in the neighborhood where he resides to have been a soldier in the Revolution & that we concur in that opinion.
Peter Holt
Sworn & subscribed the day & year aforesaid
Joshua Holt Edward Parker, Judge of Probate.

No 149.
Ebenezer Larrington
26984
29
Mr. Ebenezer Larrington's Regt enlisted 14 June 1778. discharged 1 July 1779 - 7. 17 days
Private & 70 mrs
Edmund Parker Esq. Amherst N. H.

STATE OF NEW-HAMPSHIRE
County of Hillsborough, to wit,
At the Court aforesaid, On the application aforesaid, the following interrogatories were propounded to the said Ebenezer Farrington and the following answers given, to wit
1. Where, and in what year were you born?
Answer, at Walpole Massachusetts Dec. 10. 1757
2. Have you any record of your age, and where is it?
Answer, I have no record but have a copy of the record of my birth from the records of the town of Walpole
3. Where were you living, when called into service, where have you lived since the Revolutionary War, and where do you now live?
Answer, at Walpole at each time I entered service except upon I entered the service in 1778 when I lived at Medfield, Ky. Since the war I have lived in Walpole & in Greenfield N.H. in last 20 years I have at now live
4. How were you called into service, were you drafted, did you volunteer, or were you a substitute, and if a substitute, for whom?
Answer, I believe I entered each time I volunteered; I once went for the nine months service, I was drafted. I served three weeks as a substitute for Col. [?]
5. State the names of some of the regular Officers, who were with the troops, where you served, such Continental and Militia Regiments, as you can recollect, and the general circumstances of your service?
Answer, The particular required by the interrogatory, as far as I recollect them are [?]
6. Did you ever receive a discharge from the service, and if so, by whom was it given, and what has become of it?
Answer, I received a discharge from the service it was signed. I do not remember by whom I remember receiving one, else
7. State the names of persons to whom you are known in your present neighborhood, and who can testify as to your character for veracity, and their belief of your services as a Soldier of the Revolution?
Answer, Samuel Cudworth & Charles Cavender of Greenfield
Certified by
C. H. Hetherton
Register.

And the said Court do hereby declare their opinion that after the investigation of the matter, and putting the interrogatories prescribed by the War Department, that the above named applicant was a Revolutionary Soldier and served as he states. And the Court further certifies that it appears to them that there is no clergyman residing in the said town of Greenfield, and that the Rev. Peter Holt who has signed the preceding certificate is a clergyman resident in the town of Greenfield Peterborough, a town adjoining said town of Greenfield and that Joshua Holt who has signed the same is a resident in the said town of Greenfield, and is a credible person, and that their statement is entitled to credit.
Belmond Parker, Judge of Probate for said county of Hillsborough
I Charles H. Atherton, Register & Clerk of the Court of Probate do hereby certify that the foregoing contains the original proceedings of the said Court in the matter of the application of Ebenezer Harrington for a Pension.
In testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of the Court of Probate for said county at Hanover in said county this third day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty three.
C. H. Atherton
Register & Clerk of Probate for said county of Hillsborough

DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR,
BUREAU OF PENSIONS.
Washington, D. C., _____, 19_____
In reply to your request of _____, received _____ for a statement of the military history of Cheney Farrington a soldier of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR, you will find below the desired information as contained in his (or his widow's) application for pen- sion on file in this Bureau.
   DATES OF ENLISTMENT OR APPOINTMENT, LENGTH OF SERVICE, RANK, OFFICERS UNDER WHOM SERVICE WAS RENDERED. STATE.   CAPTAIN. COLONEL.     Apr. 9, 1775 1 day Pvt Ballard Smith Mass.   Apr. 1775 Dec. 1775 Ballard Read   Spring 1776 2 mos. Roxden   Dec. 1776 6 weeks Warp Whitcomb   Feb. 1777 1 mo. 7 days Plimpton Harris   Spring 1778 Feb. 1779 Brewer Brewer   June 1780 6 mos. Rankin Rankin  
Battles engaged in, _____
Residence of soldier at enlistment, Waltham Mass.
Date of application for pension, Jan. 3, 1833
Residence at date of application, Greenfield Hillsborough Co. N.H.
Age at date of application, born Dec. 16, 1757 at Waltham Mass.
Remarks: No data as to family
Respectfully,
Commissioner.

Rev (trans)
10653
INVALID.
No. 10,653
Charles Harrington
Pr. New Mar.
Act: June 7 th 82
lex:—Vol. 9 , Page 121
[Arrangement of 1870.]
1915 July 28 First to Mrs. L. E. Recker, City in S. 1948 Joseph F. Irwin.
1922-Sept 18 First and letter of date of death to Mrs. Frank R. Kings- bury, mink

Post to Frank B. Kingsbury Retarded M. K.
Sorry Road, Keene, N.H. Aug. 8, 1922.
The Pension Office, Washington, D. C.
Gentlemen:-
An Ebenezer Farrington was in Greenfield, N.H. in 1840, 83 yrs old, a Revolutionary pensioner; served from Mass. His death is not recorded in N.H.
I am anxious to learn the date of his death, place; also birthplace date and name of parents, and name and date of marriage. Can this be secured from your records; if so, please send to me, with your fee for service.
Very truly yours,
Mrs. Frank B. Kingsbury.

Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I Eliphaaz Clap of Walpole county of Norfolk being of lawful age do testify and say that Ebenezer Farrington the person who applied to me for this deposition lived in said Walpole in the year seventeen hundred & eighty and that he with my self enlisted as a soldier in June 1780 in the continental service in the town of Walpole for the term of six months and that he served six months in the continental service on the lines between West Point & New York & at West Point under Captain Ruben Bates from Nahum Lt. Mills from Boston in Col. G. Mott's Regiment Gen. Lafayette's comm= =mand of the Brigade and that he served in the same company during the six months with said Farrington
Eliphaaz Clap
Norfolk ss. On the twenty six th day of July in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty two the the above said deponent was examined, & cautioned, and sworn agreeable to law, to the deposition above said, by him subscribed, taken at the request of Ebenezer Farrington & to be used by him for the purpose of obtaining a pension under the act of the Congress of the United States June 7 th 1832
Harvey Clap Justice of the Peace
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
I hereby certify that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of the original now on file in my office and of the whole thereof. Given under my hand and the seal of the Supreme Judicial Court of said Commonwealth this 10 th day of January A.D. 1832 Samuel Shaw

Norfolk County Massachusetts Jan. 18 th 1833
I hereby certify that Eliphas Clap the within deponent is a credible witness and that he is entitled to full credit, having always maintained a good character for truth and veracity.
Harvey Clap Justice of Peace

Rev. War Section mmh
September 18, 1922
Mrs Frank B. Kingsbury Surry Road Keene, New Hampshire
Madam:
In response to your letter received August 10, 1922, you are advised that for the date of death of Ebenezer Farrington, Revolutionary War soldier, you should apply to the Pension Section, Interior Department Division, General Accounting Office, 1800 E Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. citing all of the following data: " Ebenezer Farrington, Certificate # 21605, issued October 2, 1833, rate $ 80 per annum, commenced March 4, 1831, Act of June 7, 1833, New Hampshire Agency.
Very respectfully,
Chief Clerk.